you're breaking me in and this is how we will end with you and me... bent

[csi_sanders1129]

1. So, I went to see my school put on Martin Sherman's play Bent.

 

Plot summary: Berlin, 1934. Lovers Max and Rudy are leading a rather frivolous life. After a night of debauchery, they are suddenly faced with a Gestapo raid, which sends them on a nightmare odyssey through Nazi Germany. In the camps, since homosexuals are ranked lower on the human scale than Jews, Max bribes a guard to obtain a Jewish star in lieu of a pink triangle. There Max meets Horst, a fellow prisoner who makes him confront his own humanity.

And, that really isn't an adequate description of the play at all, but without spoiling it, that's what it is...

It  starts out hilarious and adorable and then very rapidly turns into something that is completely heart-shattering and heart-breaking and very, very, very sad. And then it stays very, very, very sad. 

I am also convinced at the this point that Matchbox Twenty's song Bent (Jeez, especially this video, twas not what I expected the video to be about. I was expecting more romance-y stuff) is all about this movie. Even though it's supposedly not. And also, supposedly there is a movie based on the play that I want to see.

2. Also, i feel sick. Blargh.

Comments

[damion_starr.livejournal.com]

I saw the movie the other day. I couldn't believe that was Clive Owen. And the scene where he and his lover are standing in the rockyard, just talking about how they'd make love, was beautiful and intimate. It just broke my heart.

[csi-sanders1129.livejournal.com]

Indeed, same. Though, apparently everyone who went to the play was still in middle school because pretty much everyone started giggling during that scene. Also, moving the rocks back and forth made me insurmountably dizzy.

But, yes, absolutely heartbreaking.